Surgery Waits

Hernia repair waiting time at Queanbeyan Hospital

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Queanbeyan area of New South Wales was 28 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
28 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
31 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 169 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 61 days in 2016–17 to 28 days in 2024–25 — down 54% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Herniorrhaphy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Queanbeyan Hospital28 daysnot published31 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)140 days12.7%229 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)132 days10.6%4206 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)86 days6.9%12195 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 86 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for herniorrhaphy by financial year at Queanbeyan Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Queanbeyan Hospital 28NSW 132Australia 86
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodQueanbeyan Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17618363
2017–18448167
2018–19548569
2019–20528778
2020–218512792
2021–228411397
2022–23179145108
2023–247912487
2024–252813286

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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